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The Epic of Juan Latino: Dilemmas of Race and Religion in Renaissance Spain
Elizabeth Wright
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Hardback. In The Epic of Juan Latino, Elizabeth R. Wright tells the story of Renaissance Europe's first black poet and his epic poem on the naval battle of Lepanto, Austrias Carmen (The Song of John of Austria). Series: Toronto Iberic. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JB; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
In The Epic of Juan Latino, Elizabeth R. Wright tells the story of Renaissance Europe's first black poet and his epic poem on the naval battle of Lepanto, Austrias Carmen (The Song of John of Austria). Piecing together the surviving evidence, Wright traces Latino's life in Granada, Iberia's last Muslim metropolis, from his early clandestine education as a slave in a noble household to his distinguished career as a schoolmaster at the University of Granada. When intensifying racial discrimination and the chaos of the Morisco Revolt threatened Latino's hard-won status, he set out to secure his position by publishing ... Read more
In The Epic of Juan Latino, Elizabeth R. Wright tells the story of Renaissance Europe's first black poet and his epic poem on the naval battle of Lepanto, Austrias Carmen (The Song of John of Austria). Piecing together the surviving evidence, Wright traces Latino's life in Granada, Iberia's last Muslim metropolis, from his early clandestine education as a slave in a noble household to his distinguished career as a schoolmaster at the University of Granada. When intensifying racial discrimination and the chaos of the Morisco Revolt threatened Latino's hard-won status, he set out to secure his position by publishing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Toronto Iberic
Condition
New
Weight
589g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442637528
SKU
V9781442637528
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About Elizabeth Wright
Elizabeth R. Wright is a professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia.
Reviews for The Epic of Juan Latino: Dilemmas of Race and Religion in Renaissance Spain
Wright has produced an admirable and highly recommended study.
William D. Phillips, Jr., University of Minnesota
University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018
William D. Phillips, Jr., University of Minnesota
University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018